Nicanor Parra hundred years old

In 2014, precisely on September 5, will be one hundred years since the birth of the poet Nicanor Parra. Thus, in Chile began in early January activities and events to celebrate his figure and his work, motivated studies around the world, while it is reported that Parra started the year in good health, active and writing.

Which is it thenThat question was answered: Writing and speaking readers & pointNow that's a warningTo whoever it is Predators demand for lobsters! A little common sense: Take along copper Take along cochayuyo Take along seafood + delicious Albacore crazy crabs Virtually nothing remains But beware native fuck forest: They will have to beat with the Mapuche! This is not a banana republic There is no corruption Outside we all know this country is happy copy of Eden O x at least a photocopyWhat is poetryX be the foundation of the word Poetry is you Everything that moves is poetry What does not change place is prose poetry But what unites us Everything is poetry prose can separate only Yes but what is poetry words Life A enigma that refuses to be deciphered x teachers Some truth and aspirin are you antipoetryGiving up the meter and rhymeReplace the camera x kaleidoscope not look back Make up a cow x rainbow The kite as a means of locomotion Urinating on parafinero jar round business where you look Publish the poems in toilet rolls By sras course & messrs Editions biodegradable Sensational great Elefantastic! Round Business where you look but do not come with us that's poetryNote on lesson antipoetry1. antipoetry poetry seeks not eloquence. 2. The antipoems be read in the same order in which they were written. 3. We read the same poems like the anti-poems. 4. Poetry-pass antipoetry also 5. The poet speaks to all without any difference 6. Our curiosity often prevents us enjoy fully antipoetry try to understand and discuss what should not. 7. To take advantage of, read in good faith and do not ever complazcas in the name of writer. 8. Question goodwill and hears without replicating the words of poets; do not dislike judgments of the old as not utter at random. 9. Greetings to all.

(From "Clubbing Long" Poetry Anthology, with selection of text and foreword by Elvio Gandolfo, Abundant, Buenos Aires, 2010 Nicanor Parra was born on September 5, 1914 in San Fabián de Alico, Ñuble. At 18 came James from Chillán, completed high school, during which already took contact with writers and other creators. studied mathematics and physics but continued linked to literature and poetry in particular. In 1937 he published his first book, "Song without a name" inspired scholars as the "Gypsy Romacero" by Federico García Lorca, but already signs of his trademark and in particular its "anti-poetry." After a journey of scientific studies to the United States, in 1954 published "Poems and antipoems "considered a deep mark on the Latin American poetry. overall informality, irreverence, sarcasm, irony, appear in his verse. Arguably since his poetic presence remains in the foreground, despite international glare by their compatriots in Special Pablo Neruda. He received many awards, including the Reina Sofia Latin American Poetry in 2001; Cervantes, in 2011, who did not travel to receive; and the Latin American Poetry Pablo Neruda, in 2012, threatened to sue whose jury for not having awarded to other poets in his place).

That was HuidobroDo not ask me to write with his feet he replied When you are branded as cerebral True rigor resides in the head That Neruda takes over housemaids This is a poem for princesTestWhat is a antipoet: A trader in urns and coffins? A priest who does not believe in anything? A general self-doubt? A tramp who laughs at everything to old age and death? A party of bad character? A dancer on the brink? A daffodil loves everyone? A bloody joker deliberately miserable? A poet asleep in a chair? An alchemist of modern times? A revolutionary pocket? A petty bourgeois? A charlatan? one ? god ? innocent ? A villager Santiago Underline the sentence you think is correct. Which is antipoetry: • A storm in a teacup ? ​​A patch of snow on a rock A serving tray full of human excrement as it believes the Father Salvatierra? A mirror that tells the truth? A slap to the face from the President of the Writers? (God rest his holy kingdom) A warning to young poets? Jet A coffin? A coffin centrifugal force? A paraffin gas coffin? not I spread a chapel? Tick The definition you think is correct.The roller coaster For half a century Poetry was solemn fool's paradise. Until I came and I moved with my roller coaster. Suban, if you will. course I do not answer if they fall Taking sagre by mouth and nose.

Warning Not let anyone tell me I did not understand the antipoems Everyone should laugh out loud. That broke my head to get to the soul of the reader. Allow yourself questions. deathbed In Each scratching with fingernails. Besides one thing: I have no problem in get in over my head.

Epitaph Of medium height, With neither thin nor thick voice, eldest son of a primary teacher and a dressmaker back room Flaco birth Although a devotee of fine dining; De emaciated cheeks and rather abundant ears, with a square face In the eyes open just a nose and mulatto boxer down to the mouth of Aztec idol All this bathed by a light pérfida- between ironic and not very clever or complete fool I was what I was: a mixture of vinegar and Oil eating a sausage angel and beast!

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Nicanor Parra and Muses

By Paula Burchard antipoetry Parra created fifty years ago. Unlike Neruda, his verse does not explicitly account for women who have inspired her life. Marcela Escobar Q. Photo: Juan Eduardo Lopez doors of the house that has Nicanor Parra in Las Cruces are open. The gate of Lincoln overlooking the main street and also, that someone daubed in black with the words "antipoe-sy". A young woman comes to pass, Nicanor not know of this visit, but she promises to find out if you are willing to receive people. The author of the imaginary man looks tired and sporting a stubble, corduroy trousers, light shoes, shirt, vest and a leather jacket that is too big. Walk slowly, holding in his hands a cup of tea. When he learns that the aim of this visit is to find out about his muses, Nicanor is silent. "Tremendous theme," mutters suddenly, reluctantly but gentle. He says he's tired, that have been days of celebrations for his 90th birthday, he does not feel well. The response to counter our insistence and has prepared. brackets I am, especially on that topic explains. He stands firm and repeat: I'm in parentheses. That is my answer. Nicanor Parra has never spoken about the women who inspired his verses. Neither of those with whom he married, with whom had children, who lived with intense romances. Unlike Neruda, who explicitly gave women complete their works, Parra has been a discreet poet. A knight without memory, in parentheses. were some, however, who left written traces. Aromos verses, published in Russian Songs are for Inga Palme, Swedish-born women who married in 1951 Parra In The textile worker, "the young woman inexplicably" Tuca would Nury, his last wife, the mother of his sons John of God and Columbine. And that "imaginary" woman who inspired the lines of the imaginary man would also name. Ah, she died ... Nicanor regrets in her garden gate. Not to speak more, apparently. Remains impenetrable character that he has built, which does not give interviews, has been used to treat him like a rock star. Parra has not drunk a drop of tea without allowing a step forward, says goodbye with the same initial gentleness. I'm tired, I'm sorry, were very hard days. took the car and heading to Santiago when Nicanor makes a hand sign. "Wait," he says. "I have something that can help you, just as you arrived I was writing a poem on the subject." Parra walks to the garage where they parked the Beetle still driving on the coast, but, not for nothing, handle in Santiago. There is a table, a chair, a red without uncorking, several books and a few books. A narrow as a desk with a dazzling view of the Las Cruces area. The windows allow the sun through the piece. Nicanor want to show your last text. At close of his makeshift desk, invites her home and is on the terrace where read out La Sagrada Familia, who has written on white sheets with her ​​classical calligraphy. , I would give just because I have hot jeta launches Parra, laughing . I'm in the mood who writes a poem, if I read it in a week so I throw in the trash. Whatever rescued from the trash is, in his words, "a poem very ambitious love, because it is at the core of Christianity. St. Joseph, the Virgin, Jesus ... ". The José de Parra is a platonic father, you just need to be told you dad. Says the author. The lyric speaker of the poem, as critics say. To me, to record me. No-no-no, this is not confessional or autobiographical poetry. thinking in the poem, are you more platonic, then? Over Aristotelian Platonist, what else can a man? ILLUMINATED AT A year ago, in Nicanor has home in Regina, the poet Francisco Vejar saw an episode of this kind. Parra's friend for years, accompanied him when they came to visit two girls. They were young, no older than 25, and "really flirting with him," recalls Véjar. "Both the number you left your cell phone, and after they left, Nicanor said, 'Pancho, gee, they ask me Aristotelian love, and the only thing I can offer you is platonic love".' games words are given either Nicanor. Not for nothing is who he is. A candidate for the Nobel, the poet of constant homage, cultural reference on the left and the right, the man who at ninety loses its appeal. The coat of Platonic love is something that Parra has above as the best way to stay sheltered. Parra Sergio Badilla met at a gathering of writers in Viña del Mar, back in 1967, then, the young poet knew Badilla of the ways that Nicanor, at that point one vate consecrated women conquered. "had an almost childlike love ordering them recaditos" describes Badilla. Follows: "It was always a poem when he fell in love with a woman I'm sure it must have spread many different encounters Thus began with an almost naive, very soft, almost romantic attitude was able to speak slowly, as enlightened... . " That was when Parra wanted to conquer a woman. After getting the attention of your target, Nicanor was down. It became mysterious, a gallant unusual, nothing daring. Badilla said that strategy.. "Parra combines this amazing ability not only letters, but also in science is a man linked to higher physical, a man of laboratory test Combining these two aspects, the comes out is a mixture of gunpowder, an unpredictable man. An imaginary man, as he says. " The late Julio Ortiz de Zárate Burchard, co-Parra at the Pedagogical Institute, she told her daughter Beatrix of a first love that the poet courted with these arts, writing. "I wrote a love letter to Toya Cornejo, both fellow at the Pedagogical" recalls Beatrice. "It was a platonic love, courting through words. Then girls were harder than they are now. Nicanor My dad said he hid and watched the trees." Toya Cornejo found Julio Ortiz de Zárate ago few years. According to the daughter, the woman still has the letter from Parra. The first time that Beatriz Ortiz de Zárate frequented Parra was in its infancy, when the poet was married to his first wife, Ana Troncoso. The couple's marriage was in 1940 and already had three children, Catherine, Frances and Albert. By then, Nicanor had won a scholarship for further training in Oxford in cosmology. Those were the years that still exerted a dual membership. Poetry and science to his wife would not be left alone while he was in England, Nicanor asked Julio Ortiz de Zárate he moved, with his family, the house where Anita and children lived. Beatriz was about six years. Says Anita was a cheerful and beautiful brunette woman slanted eyes, black hair to her waist and "a sculpted body." Beatriz does not remember most of those years but later learned, by his father, when Nicanor returned from England in 1951, was in love with another woman. The Swedish Inga Palme. "Sugar Daddy went" It's twelve-thirty on the first Tuesday of September. Nicanor Parra is ninety-two days, and from its terrace overlooking the entire beach. It has crossed the entrance hall where about four typewriters and a homemade display of their famous artifacts, which change according to chance and your mood. Somewhere off his hat green canvas. It is unnecessary, because the deck is protected from the sun. Parra, however, does not remove. At over forty years I think they call them dirty old men, and ... says Parra unsure tone. So it was old man after 40? Went old man did not know that it was necessary not. Then I learned the lesson, with the Code of Manu, the ancient Hindu teachers, according to Nietzsche, are the most knowledgeable in the world. Parra is immersed in the teachings of the Code of Manu, as if aspiring to become a superior man or "brahman priest," the individual to whom the book appeals Hindus. The same woman who told him of the visit has brought more tea; Parra still excited about the list of the ages of the superior man. First is the neophyte or reader of the scriptures recite. Then the gallant family or founder. Then the hermit. And finally, the ascetic. "O shining butterfly," says Nicanor, opening his eyes, raising his index finger and voice dialing in the last two syllables, similar to the attitude of teachers to their students. Notice that the Code of Manu says that when first grandchild born, or between 40 and 50, it is right that the superior man renounces the world. It means giving, first, the woman; Second, a family; third, and fourth materials goods, give up fame, the pursuit of fame. Such waivers should not be easy. At 40, 50 years, is still a man of the world. 's right But according to the ancient Indian masters. The only thing I can do is give an account of those readings. Has only been accounted for readings or has lived well? That we will talk. This is a conversation and not an interview. I'm in parentheses. Let me fill you in the Code of Manu. Parra will not answer the question. REGISTRATION, BLONDES, showy "With people it upsets, Nicanor closed doors," explains Francisco Vejar. And states: "It is more difficult for women to access to this circle of friends, because they are always a romantic object remember once went to see a friend of his age, and Nicanor was uncomfortable and not relaxed.". According to Sergio Badilla, Parra prefer young women, "relatively high social status, intellectual, linked to the letters or art." Nicanor himself in an interview he did with the writer José Donoso in 1960, admits he always liked " tall women, blonde, very showy. " About Inga Palme, his second wife, would say, "Inga I found the most beautiful girl I had ever seen and I married her in London I am a person emotionally chaotic and, despite that, Inga has always been.. by me and supported me. It's the person that I tell in life, who understands me and knows forgive. " Beatriz Ortiz de Zárate was about twelve years old when Nicanor Parra and Inga Palme visited the house of his parents. "She was a blonde, very friendly, very gentle and very in love with Nicanor woman. He also looked in love with her," recalls Beatrice. Later, his parents would find Inga in the center, alone, and it would have confessed them Nicanor "made a trip and brought to another Swedish is terrible." La "another Swedish" was Sun Axelsson, poet about 23 Parra years who met in Stockholm. Sun was the girlfriend of poet and translator Lasse Söderberge, but was delighted with Parra. Sergio Badilla, who lived in Stockholm for many years, knew the story from Sun Axelsson: "Nicanor sees a brunette with blue eyes and, as he always It was very flir- teador begins to honor her. Nicanor was about 44, but that does not matter. poet is always young soul. " While in Stockholm, Nicanor stays in the house Sun in south Stockholm . He then travels to Beijing and brings you a roll of gift black, raw silk from China. Sergio Badilla says Sun Axelsson, now in his 70s, still has that gift. . And she herself has said the months that followed, in which Nicanor stayed at home, were "months of bliss" In the interview he did with José Donoso, Parra explains his fascination with Swedish women ' It's as if sex did not matter to them and seek pleasure without inhibitions and, if possible, without moorings sentimental.'s true that I'm talking about a very liberated environment, the world corresponding to the 'beatniks', and the 'angry young men', and I imagine that there will be there, as elsewhere, environments with very different customs. sexual freedom but Nordic is something ... well, that we can not imagine in Chile. I , I'm not a saint, I was there a real prude. " What came after the mutual fascination between Nicanor and Sun Axelsson was confusing. The poet returned to Chile, together with Inga, and while Sun decided to come after him. Only when he reached Santiago Parra learned that he was married. Sun Axelsson has written books recounting his spite. He said that Nicanor spoke with her ​​sister Violet to take over, that left locked, did not want to see anyone and did not believe him when he fell ill with typhus was made. In the ongoing discussions on the elusive Nobel for Parra has spoken of the damage that despite Sun Axelsson has caused in the campaign for the prize, and although the Swedish and stated that forgave Nicanor, has to his credit three books in mentioning its history with the poet. "Sun will not only write against Nicanor," says Sergio Badilla, "but ignores it. She is the great translator from Spanish into Swedish, and he published an anthology poemita and puts it up to poets of my generation, who by then had not even made ​​a play. ningunearlo That is. " When Beatriz Ortiz de Zarate met Sun, was about seventeen. She was a young art student. He was presented to the Swedish the same day he met Jorge Enrique Lihn and Teillier, who later became her husband. Sun, recalled: "He had the face of a lion, with big green eyes proposed a great sexual freedom.". Years after the break, Nicanor wrote in Aromos: "Strolling years / On a street of acacia blossom / Supe for Friend knowledgeable / That you were just married. / I replied that indeed / That I had nothing to do with it. / But although never loved you / That you know better than anyone / Whenever flourish aromos / Imagine you / I feel the same thing I felt / When I was shot point blank / Pretty bleak / That you were married to other news. " To his friend Francisco Vejar, Nicanor Parra recognized that these verses written in 1967 were for Inga Palme. WOMEN'S IMAGINARY since married the poet Jorge Teillier in 1963, Beatriz Ortiz de Zárate began frequenting the house Nicanor Parra was in Regina. By then, he was married to Rosita Parra Munoz, who was employed by the poet. They had one son, Ricardo. "Nicanor said Rosita star had eyes, was his queen, he fell in love with it," says Beatriz, who got to know quite Rosita. "You was brunette, very cute eyes, very sharp and very bright He had everything spotless Nicanor,.. A hostess splendid house, a wonderful hostess who knew silence had the same type of Anita Troncoso, one of the beauties painted by Gauguin. " There is no explicit correspondence between Rosita parriana Muñoz and literature. Yes there are hints of other women with similar physical characteristics to Ana Troncoso and Rosa Muñoz. . This is Monica Silva, a said woman quote a verse of Parra Francisco Vejar heard of it: "In one of the bedrooms of his home in La Reina is a zoomed picture Nicanor told me it was the real Monica Silva, and. yours corresponded to Chilean traditional beauty I said. 'So you know it, Pancho, Monica Silva existed in real life, is it' he did not tell me details ".. After Rosita Muñoz, Nicanor fell in love, a pretty young blond, very blue eyes. "A beautiful woman," have told Francisco Vejar. Nury Tuca She was the mother of the youngest of Nicanor Parra, Colombina John of God and children. "It was a very strong romance, no passenger, but also very controversial," said Vejar. And that because Parra, according to his friend, he likes not only the most beautiful women, but also "complicated." Francisco says that Nicanor has left certain nostalgia for his unfinished love. Not all, however, have had the significance of that Molinare said Ana Maria, the woman who inspired the verses of the imaginary man. Cristián Warnken said he is "the best poem of love and pain in Castilian." For therefore deserves the Nobel. In its concluding verses, we read: "And the moon is imaginary / dreams of imaginary woman / that gave him his imaginary love / again feel that pain / the same imaginary pleasure / and returns to pulse / heart of imaginary man. " During the visit Véjar Francisco Parra made ​​him a month ago, the poet confessed that he was in love with Ana Maria. "Molinare Mary Anne was a woman of character, as is also Nicanor" elaborates Véjar. They met in the late 70s, she was separated and had about 34 years. Nicanor twice her age. They lived together for a couple of years and so has one of her friends, their relationship was "very intense and strong. Was treated to a passionate love, very romantic for her. Was fascinated with him, he was much loved and he was a great poet. During those years there was already a group that postulated the Nobel ". "They were at different stages," adds the same source, explaining why the relationship did not prosper. Several years after the end of his relationship with Nicanor, Ana Maria died tragically after falling from his apartment. Probably after it has been other women. Francisco Vejar last met, with whom he lived at least until 1996, three years earlier, arrived in Las Cruces Véjar with Antonio and Jorge Teillier Avaria and opened the door a young girl, wearing shorts and T-shirt. He said that Nicanor was napping, to return later. "Her name was Andrea Lodeiro" recalls Véjar. "When we returned, she was dressed very elegant and Nicanor had become very fine rates for serving tea. Each time I saw her, she was really incorporated into the daily life of Nicanor Parra. If I needed a book she knew where he was and what they brought. were couples, walking hand in hand. " Francisco coincided with both again in the winter of 1994, at a meeting of writers in Temuco. "They went everywhere together for Nicanor and was very happy, very proud to present". Nicanor and Andrea have separated after 1996 That year was the launch of Vine Leaves, the last time I saw them together Francisco Vejar. "I was very close to him at that time and Nicanor fell ill after that separation. Were very much in love. After Andrea and the tears came the speech of the hermit, who retires to the forest and resignation." Under the Code of Manu, the hermit goes alone and naked in the forest. He explains the Parra own, at least. On the terrace of his home in Las Cruces, sitting on a white chair, plastic, Nicanor has shredded all the steps you need to follow a superior man by the book of life of the Hindus. Like the hermit, Parra is alone; do not know if she's happy. "A Nicanor he took one lady, a woman who was his partner in the spiritual, emotional world. He did not recognize or say it, but I feel that it took him" Francisco Vejar had mentioned. After the speech of the hermit, those words make sense. question would be La Parra challenges, as it were, again, a teacher dictating Chair What the hermit goes alone into the woods? He goes after Brahma. You will wonder who is Brahma. Universal soul which we were mutilated against divine will, by demons masquerading as gods ... Nicanor pauses and seems finally out of the reverie that cause eastern precepts. Leave the speech teacher who has argued for more than an hour, and confesses: I read this late. I came to Las Cruces as a hermit for 80 years. Long ago I should have been ascetic. Overall, errors and omissions excepted, it seems to me that this is the most coherent worldview on sociability ... About how we got to this point, do you remember? way of Platonic love. The only one I now feel able Parra.

Nicanor Parra forever passionate

He has lived twice. In 2014 he turned 100, and then we should celebrate its bicentennial. Here are their desparpajos calculated, their relationship with God and unbearable heartache.

Its head is a tangle of father and lord in religion. That many think. He has used all his mocking battery central symbols of Christianity. Let's see:

Lamb of God to wash the sins of the world me a favor and tell me the time. lavas Lamb of God that the sins of the world Give me your wool to make me a sweater.

Use sarcasm in almost everything, but he steps aside: "What counts in the poem is the lyric speaker, with which I work. He must charge you the dice; he responds consistency or inconsistency of the poetic text. Not me. "
But are there "hidden religion" in antipoetry, as stated by the literary critic Ibáñez Langlois , Opus Dei, which he did in '70 consecrating praise? Perhaps. It would be in the unconscious. Why did John of God to his last child? The same Ibáñez when last year it was granted the 'Cervantes Prize', seemed to say that is a great poet, period, because I asked about "what ideas Parra are", said: "There is a man of ideas. He himself has acknowledged many times. There's nothing like a worldview. It is scattered and chaotic reading. You searched some support for your ideas to post to have something like ecology. Definitely, Parra will not be for their ideas. In his poetry is all. One time he gave to the Far East and Taoism. "

The truth is that Taoism has never left, and is where perhaps expressed most obvious religiosity. To dress like an almost destitute hermit monk. Facing extreme pain, which made ​​him think of suicide, he took refuge in despair in the Tao Te Ching, core philosophy and Taoist religion, spiritual foundation of Chinese life. A Parra is not known any text in Taoism serve to make anyone laugh. Luce earnest, respectful. As a Brahmin Hindu baby with fervor the 'Laws of Manu'. In Orientalism quenches his thirst for eternity. At times angry, yields to grumpy: All I had to say has been said I do not know how many times. I've asked do not know how many times but no one answers my questions. 's absolutely necessary That abyss respond once 'Cause it is becoming short time. Only one thing is clear That the meat is filled with worms.

At its most stubborn interpreter, Cesar Cuadra, who won a European PhD on the same subject, and has just released another book about his anti-poetry, asked if he found religious faith in those texts. "No. With Parra, God only operates as a science, is a function. " And since the poet dedicated his complete works God "exists or not," I say we could not be a believer or an atheist, but an agnostic, that it neither confirms nor denies. No block Cuadra think.

Challenging death

On the subject of death, also lives up to what he said about Enrique Lihn antipoetry: "It's more tangled than an ear." Despite his success in life, being a sensualist in almost all possible expressions of pleasure, their experience of almost 100 years seemed to bring him closer to another life ... And aspirations of resurrection! In his Anti-Lazarus speaks to an imaginary body wanting to resurrect that may be it:

Old bad memory bad memory! your heart was a pile of rubble I am quoting your own writings- and your soul there was nothing to do then return to Dante's Inferno what for comedy again? do or what Divine Comedy 8 / 4 flying light-mirages bait to hunt greedy lauchas that really would be nonsense body're happy you're happy in your grave you do not need anything laugh at the goldfish (...)

The "collective habits" die is always subject grabbed his pen. And not just because he was tempted to take the same path her sister Violet, which pains of love decided to renounce the world. It is easy to see why he wrote the most challenging, rugged and poorly spoken text is known about the dreaded Grim Reaper. Parra prefers to remain silent, he washes his hands. Gave the floor to his "lyric speaker." Look how dialogue with Death

A home of poet death arrives drunk to open my old'm looking for a sheep guacha am sick-then forgive old menhaden Ábreme old bastard Or vai to mohtrar l'lint? for very sick quehtí teníh quiafilame I'hacha quiet me die I tell you vizcacha old ...

Those who have been with him lately, as his friend the writer, photographer and cultural manager Martin admire Huerta- the implacable memory of his lucidity intact. But it 12 years ago said to Marcelo Simonetti :

"Sometimes I come lagoons and wonder what I'm doing here."

Brings many years asthma problems and now finally, dizziness. Behind lumbago haunts him, so used a donkey to walk, tells Cesar Cuadra. Lincoyán Parada, who began photographing 40 years ago, found him recently at his home in Las Cruces reading without glasses, full of spirit and dress like a long time, with second-hand clothes. Older, of course. "How life changes us, Don Nicanor," he said. "Broom", replied without hesitation. Before his departure for China, invited to exhibit his photos of the Mapuche world to stop talking about his last encounter with Nicanor. He has been twice this year with him, alone, at home, with the intent to photograph him with his clan. Want to add these photos to your graphic history of Parra, where they are and your mother, grandmother, brothers, some of his great loves.

How was it?

'I can not accept. Maybe not to appear as an old beautiful secluded in his stronghold of Las Cruces. On my second visit was not as good. Soon, perhaps to not talk about my project, he said: "I give interviews only five minutes." I resigned I suggested: "Although a single photo, Don Nicanor, quickie". I glanced my camera ... only needed a yes. "It is five minutes end!" He announced. "You have 10 seconds. Take one if it's that rascal, "said the old fox bringing his hands to his face, trick been using for years. In a thirtieth of a second stretch his arm out and a click, a slap of drowning. Not enough to cover his face. My last picture of him is the story of that split second.
The quality of this picture, we see in these pages, does honor to the poet or the photographer. But it is the testimony that the approach at 100 Nicanor Parra preserved the ability to play.

I forgot that I forgot

The most feared Chilean critic of the twentieth century, Alone, and applauded a youth Parra, "the most vibrant and smiling, floral and festive new poets ... brash, funny, dreamy and distant suddenly, unpredictably, inexhaustible, familiar, exquisite ... extraordinary ... whose side are dissolved or others fleeing, bass, minimal ... still. " All I saw Alone have seen their wives, a crowd !, almost all faceless trace. There are some exceptions, starting with the three mothers of his six children. One is Nuri Tuca, whose children were born. Juan de Dios and the Columbian musician, mother of Christopher Ugarte, a year ago Parra represented in the Cervantes Prize before the princes of Asturias Nuri, which has been described by Parra as "inexplicable young" - told us: -for my kids mainly, I feel the most important women that Nicanor was married. Also because they were about ten years of marriage, since 1969, with many good things, especially while living in America. There were some not so good, of course. It was intense. Very important was also his wife of 26 years, Ana Troncoso. They had three sons and a relationship that lasted until the poet, married in Chile with her, returned to Oxford ... married to the Swedish Inga Palmer. Liberal and patient Norse children would not leave. "I found the most beautiful girl I had ever seen," Parra said. The marriage survived almost a decade, despite the self-confessed "emotional instability" of Parra. A tough episode was the emergence of another Swedish teen Sun Axelsson poet, friend of the secretary of the Swedish Academy until she met antipoet. She made ​​the amatory Parra outbursts of passion to spend more time in your life threatened. Thus, you spend your text Viper (others believe it was a Stella Díaz Varin poetess with whom he had another complicated love episode). Many say Axelsson, for his writings and connections with the Academy, has helped block his way to the Nobel.

In '60, Rosa Muñoz, a young brunette, cute, with little training, came home in the work plan, and ended up being the mother of his fourth child, Ricardo Nicanor the Chamaco.
But none of the above has been for so long in love and memory of Parra as a young 32 year old was your partner for just two months. Separate or marital crisis, Ana Maria Vergara Molinare, a graduate of St. Ursula, "was what I dreamed and that at age 64 he thought he had found," he told Chilean Literature Professor Leonidas Morales Toro, in the book Conversations with Nicanor Parra. Confessed something more, on pain after being dumped, "I should have done what she did. He killed himself. Not for myself, not at the time, but years later. I survived thanks to Taoism. "

Three decades have passed. And a few weeks ago when I visited stop, the poet asked him a picture of her rescue. It's that time usually does not cure anything. The poet complained 12 years ago. "Can you believe it's been so long and everything has always been the same?". As on the album Black Tears, could sing "I forgot that I forgot."
Beauty, grace and elegant figure of Ana María Molinare are remembered by Nuri Tuca, Parra woman until shortly before the meeting:

I think that after me, is the most important of his life. After finishing Nicanor was a long time out of Chile, and became very unstable for something I never knew. It was the announcement of an end.
Parra This love inspired text that sounds like a mantra invoking divinity: The imaginary man. "I wrote it with a gun on the desk. It was either that or suicide, "he said later. Cristián Warnken considered "the most beautiful love poem written in Castilian pain." By Parra decision was read to the princes of Asturias. However, no environment Ana Maria seems willing to talk about this important muse. One sister, Catherine, former Miss Chile 1971 Maja, who lived in Madrid for those years, said he knew nothing. "My brothers say no more. For the family is not an issue, "he adds.

The pains did not stop Ana Maria Parra later lived another great love with a beautiful young girl named Andrea Lodeiro. With it began an intense relationship when I was 78, which lasted until after 82 Now she, expert on issues of intelligence, unfolds in a military-academic environment and prefer that your name not be known for that relationship with Parra, whom he calls "the Nicanor".
'd rather not talk about. I think Nicanor deserves all the respect in the world and is the most important man in my life. It may bother saying anything. Private is ours, why should I be in a magazine?

'But there is already !, and contradictory versions. Is not it better that the substance is known from his mouth? Why the mystery?

Because not only have I loved, but still, after 15 years, the most powerful man I have ever had with me.

Because not only loved him, but still, after 15 years, the most powerful man I have been at my side and would prefer to stay out of any analysis. Not comfortable. I have experienced firsthand, because every time I mention that Nicanor, I do not like. I know how it feels. -¿Está upset with him? 'No! We are good friends ... We talk on the phone sometimes; also sometimes I'll see.

-¿La Relationship left a good
memory? 'The best of all. It is a key man in my life. I would say that my loyalty and affection remain almost intact. After my two children, there is another very important person to me.

When and how you met?
-A see ... in 1989 came to give a talk at Liceo Fleming, Las Condes, where I studied. I went to greet him. We had a lot of admiration. And I asked if I could go see. Visited him from time to time to inquire stuff. Our life together began in 1992 and ended only in 1997 was almost a slow process. You start to realize that it is very important for your life together is inevitable. 20s-he had you and he 78. It seemed an age to that relationship? 'I live without naming things. I did not measure the consequences. And what! He was born naturally and is very-very important to me. -Natural. It is easy to imagine a teen dazzled by someone who for thousands of young people is almost a rock star. 'It's not like that. The Nicanor of my life is not the character, is the man. I never linked me with "character." I admire and always admired him, but I feel much shame when I think that someone thinks I approached him to give me good shade. After studying journalism I devoted to the topic of intelligence, I interacted with most military writers. AAInteligencia Andrea created the magazine, he headed for 10 years and is now its senior editor. Still single and had two sons, one a teenager. He wrote there that one day you left the house telling Nicanor screams. "! I'm expecting a child that is not yours" It was pretty less cartoonish than they have. But sure enough, one day our relationship had to end. It was almost natural process, the age difference. It could not be my partner forever. Sometimes things have to take another course, and that was just. No one may wonder.

Adolfo Vásquez Rocca PH. D. Doctor of Philosophy from the Catholic University of Valparaiso; Graduate University Complutense of Madrid, Department of Philosophy IV. Professor of Graduate Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Valparaiso; Professor of Anthropology and Aesthetics in the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Universidad Andrés Bello UNAB. Professor, School of Journalism and Architecture UNAB Santiago. In October 2006 and 2007 he was invited by the Foundation Man and World UNAM and to teach a Lecture in Mexico. Member of the International Editorial Board of the Global Ethic Foundation of Mexico. Director of the International Advisory Council Konvergencias , Journal of Philosophy and Culture in Dialogue, Argentina. Member of Editorial Conselho da em Revista Humanities , Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the Editorial Board of Sophia (Journal of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Ecuador). Director Remarks Philosophical Magazine . Visiting Professor in the Masters in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Puebla. Visiting Professor Florida Christian University USA and Associate Professor Theoria -Proyect European Research Group UCM Postgrado- . Academic Researcher from the office of Research and Graduate Studies, Universidad Andrés Bello. conceptual artist . He published the book: Peter Sloterdijk; Spheres, cosmic ice and climate policies , Novatores Collection, No. 28, Editorial Institution of Alfons the Magnanimous (IAM), Valencia, Spain, 2008 Special guest at the International Conference of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale | Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2011 .

Teachers returned us crazy questions that were irrelevant how complex numbers are added or not there spiders in the moon how the Tsar's family died is it possible to sing with your mouth closed? whom he painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa do you call the inhabitants of Jerusalem or not there is oxygen in the air how many apostles of Christ what is the meaning of the word consueta what were the words that Christ said on the cross who is the author of Madame Bovary where Cervantes wrote Don Quixote how he killed David Goliath etymology of the word philosophy which is the capital of Venezuela when the Spaniards arrived at Chile

Nobody will say that our teachers were a rolling encyclopedias exact opposite: a modest primary teachers or secondary can not quite remember which of itself-that cane and coat as we are at the beginning of the century had why bother to bother that way except for unmentionable reasons why so many educational hobby to such cruelty in the black void!

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law of universal gravitation to which family owned the cow are they called wings of insects to which family owned the platypus least common multiple between two and three there is no darkness or in the light of the solar system amphibian respiratory organs of fish unique system periodic elements author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse what the phenomenon called es-pe-jis-mo how much delay a train to get to the moon how chalkboard say in French underline words ending in a consonant.

really the things is that we sat in the dispute who would bother with those questions in the best case just made ​​us tremble only bad head the real truth of the matter is that we were people of action in our eyes the world was reduced to the size of a soccer ball and kick it was our delusion our reason for being teenagers there were championships which lasted until night still see chasing me invisible ball in the dark had to be owl or bat to avoid colliding with the walls of adobe that was our world questions our teachers went gloriously for our ears like water duck back without disturbing the calm of the universe constituent parts of the flower which family belongs weasel method of preparing ozone Balmaceda political testament surprise Cancharayada where the liberating army entered insects harmful to agriculture how the Poema del Cid begins drawing a differential sheave and determine the equilibrium condition. Friendly reader will understand that we wanted more than just more than absolutely necessary: ​​to Determine the height of a cloud? do you calculate the volume of the pyramid? do you prove that root of two is an irrational number? do you learn by heart the Songs of Jorge Manrique? leave you of nonsense with us today we have to decide a championship but came tests written and then oral evidence (in a boiler fell scrubbing) with a regularity worthy of a better cause:

electromagnetic theory of light in which the minstrel of minstrel differs is it correct to say eggs are sold? do you know what is a well ? artesian classify birds Chile murder of Manuel Rodríguez French Guiana independence hero Simon Bolivar or antihero O'Higgins abdication speech you are more than a light bulb hanging

Teachers were right: really really brain escaped us by noses to see how we There was teeth chattering what the colors of the rainbow should Magdeburg hemispheres scientific name of the swallow frog metamorphosis what Kant meant by the categorical imperative how Chilean pesos are translated into sterling who introduced Chile Hummingbird why not drop the Tower of Pisa why not the Hanging Gardens of Babylon break down why not the moon fall to earth? departments Ñuble how a right angle trisecta how many and what are the regular polyhedra it has not the slightest clue.

would have preferred that the earth swallow me answer those questions crazy especially after moralizing little speeches that subjected us to impajaritablemente other day do you know how much does the state every Chilean citizen from moment you enter elementary school until leaving college? million pesos sixpence!

A million pesos sixpence and were pointing their finger: how the hydrostatic paradox is explained how ferns reproduce enuméreme volcanoes in Chile which is the longest river in the world which is the world's most powerful battleship how elephants breed inventor of the sewing machine inventor of balloons you are more hung a bulb will have to go to the house and return with their parents to talk with the Rector of the Establishment.

Meanwhile WWI Meanwhile WWII Adolescence courtyard at the bottom of Youth under the table Maturity has not met Aging . ........... with insect wings.

Consider, boys, this overcoat mendicant friar: I am a teacher in a dark high school, I lost my voice making classes. (After all or nothing I do forty hours a week). Which tells slapped my face? Truth inspires pity at me ! And what they suggest these shoes cure That aged without art or part.

Regarding eyes, ten feet I do not even recognize my own mother. What about me? ! 'Nothing I've ruined by the classes: The bad light, the sun, Poison wretched moon. And all for what! bread to win an unforgivable Face Tough as bourgeois and smelling and tasting blood. For what we were born as men Give us a death of animals!

By overwork, sometimes I see strange in the air ways, I hear crazy races, Laughter, criminal conversations. Observe these hands And these white cheeks cadaver These few hairs I have left. infernal These black wrinkle! But I was just like you, young, full of beautiful ideals dreamed melting the copper and diamond faces filing: Here I am today behind this uncomfortable inn brutalized by the singsong De five hundred hours a week.